In the continueing exploits of "what the hell is happening to my bag" I just got a phone call from my mother (who had kindly let me use her credit card to reorder the bag after the first payment got declined) telling me that the credit card company had phoned her regarding what they percieved as fraudulent activity on ther card (not the whitechapel bag I don't think, but something else) but they also informed her that because of the fraud which actually wasn't fraud at all, they had cancelled any payments after that, which included the bag. Some external force seems to be trying to stop me getting this bag, but hopefully not. I just emailed the guys (and girls) at comic cavalcade informing of them of what happened, and that the payment might get declined, so hopefully I can get this sorted out and get my bag...

On a tangent it was only as we walked out of the hotel on the first day that I noticed my brother was wearing the Dok Sleepless 'Science Bastard' t-shirt (for he is a science teacher and finds such things amusing) - Give us a few facial piercings and scrotal purses and we could have been a chapter of the Ellis cult.

And yes, finally all the way to Sapporo, Japan! Repreeeeeezenting the finest the internet has to offer in the land of the rising sun!

I've been wearing it out and about and today I went to a huge sculpture park in the countryside outside the city. Hiking up higher and higher into the hills of Hokkaido I found an Antony Gormley sculpture Shaft 2, which frankly was too good an opportunity to miss:

Yeah, as you can see I had to change the strap, it was just pissing me off. Otherwise, a fantastic, fantastic purchase.